Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal trial»

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The trial to determine if the U.S. Department of Justice can stop AT&T's $ 85 billion purchase of media company Time Warner will begin on March 19, a federal judge in Washington said during a hearing on Thursday.

At trial, a federal jury in Manhattan in 2014 awarded the EMI companies nearly $ 48.1 million, a sum U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan later reduced, resulting in a $ 12.2 million judgment against Robertson.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

A federal judge on Monday cleared the way for a U.S. government lawsuit seeking nearly $ 100 million in damages from disgraced former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong to go to trial, according to court papers.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury on all seven counts he faced after a closely watched four - week trial spilling out of U.S. investigations of the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy T. Howard (R) speaks during closing arguments in the trial of Ross Ulbricht (L), the suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road, as seen in a courtroom sketch in Federal Court in New York February 4, 2015.

The first of the bullion bank traders being brought to trial on charges of manipulating the U.S. gold and futures markets, Andy Flotron, has been treated unfairly by the prosecution, a federal judge has ruled.

Reuters reported Tuesday that the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court to start the trial March 3.

A U.S. judge heard closing arguments on March 27 in a trial to determine whether the California city of Stockton qualifies for federal bankruptcy protection.

For Devine — Daley's top deputy in the state's attorney's office, former Chicago Park District Board president and now a highly respected trial lawyer in private practice — that could include a federal judgeship or even U.S. attorney in Chicago if Jim Burns steps down.

The trial will also test what remains of federal corruption law after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened it last year.

Citing disagreements on the law that have emerged in different federal appeals courts, Silver claims that at trial, U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni applied the wrong standards to money laundering, bribery and extortion charges.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's bid to block his retrial on corruption charges, paving the way for a planned April 16 start to Silver's new trial in Manhattan federal court.

The Menendez case was the first major federal bribery trial since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 threw out the conviction of Republican former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and narrowed the definition of bribery.

U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm learned on Tuesday that he will not go on trial in federal court in December, as originally scheduled.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on bribery and corruption charges after an earlier trial ended in a deadlocked jury last fall.

As Gail Skelos, the ex-senator's wife and Adam's mother, passed Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was sitting in the back of the courtroom throughout the trial, she told the federal prosecutor: «You can go to hell.»

Leonard Genova, testifying in Venditto's federal corruption trial, acknowledged to Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Mirabile that he had not been truthful with her when she interviewed him on Jan. 28, 2016.

Today, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit denied disgraced former Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson's appeal of his federal trial judge's order seizing his pension contributions assets that can be used to pay his $ 22,000 restitution penalty.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded not guilty today to federal corruption charges as his lawyer accused U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of turning the public against him and undermining his right to a fair trial.

He recalled former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara «s lawsuit against the city for the abusive conditions at the jail, the city's subsequent acceptance of a federal monitor and the plight of youths like Kalief Browder who found themselves unable to afford bail and held behind bars for months, even years, awaiting trial.

They included Kathleen Rice, a U.S. representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney from Manhattan; Alphonso David, Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Letitia James, the New York City public advocate; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - N.Y.; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

Sheldon Silver, who for years was one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was «blinded by greed,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in opening statements at Silver's bribery trial in federal court in Manhattan.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's bid to block his retrial on corruption charges, paving the way for a planned April 16 start to the Manhattan Democrat's new trial in federal court.

SILVER was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni who also presided over the five - week jury trial.

Federal prosecutors argue in court papers that former state Sen. John Sampson doesn't deserve a new trial despite the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

Federal prosecutors in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni filed Thursday signaled they will present evidence at the corruption trial of a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that a Connecticut lobbyist sought an internship for his daughter at the the energy company linked to the case.

A New York federal judge ruled Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son can stay free on bail while appealing their convictions on corruption charges, saying jury instructions in their trial could be flawed in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

«This was bribery, this was extortion,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Goldstein told jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Silver during the prosecution's closing arguments.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, the head of the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan, recently told the judge that breaking the case into two trials is fair in order to accommodate scheduling conflicts for defense lawyers as well as Ciminelli's health issues.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Treinis Gatz asked Mei, who took the stand in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife Linda and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, if he was familiar with the expression «the Oyster Bay way.»

Testifying last week in the federal corruption trial of state Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre), Walker confirmed that the U.S. attorney office for New York's Eastern District is probing his role in «county contracts given to some of your political campaign contributors,» as prosecutors phrased it in court.

They used recently decided cases in other federal trials, as well as the U.S. Constitution, as ammunition.

Also, FDA clears the party drug ecstasy for post-traumatic stress disorder clinical trials, and U.S. courts rule that the federal government must consider the impacts of major energy projects on climate change.

Charging that thousands of patients are being misled and may be unnecessarily placed at increased risk of death, a U.S. watchdog group last week demanded that federal regulators suspend a major clinical trial exploring when to offer blood transfusions after a heart attack.

Harvard University researchers reviewed the more than 550 pediatric clinical trials that were registered with the U.S. federal government over a three - year period between 2008 and 2011 and found that more than 40 percent were never finished or that they were completed but never published even five years later.

ZUG, Switzerland; CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts; BERKELEY, California; DUBLIN, Ireland; July 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CRSP), Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTLA), Caribou Biosciences, Inc. and ERS Genomics, Ltd. announced that The Regents of the University of California, the University of Vienna, and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively «UC»), co-owners of foundational intellectual property relating to CRISPR / Cas9 genome engineering, today submitted an appellate brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the «Federal Circuit») seeking reversal of a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board («PTAB») in an interference proceeding relating to CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing technology.

Appeal seeks reversal of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision terminating interference without determining priority of inventorship of CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing Brief asserts that the Board failed to properly apply controlling U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Circuit precedents, and ignored evidence of multiple groups readily applying CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing to eukaryotic cells following teachings of Charpentier - Doudna team

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The Apple e-book price - fixing trial finally got underway in U.S. federal court in Manhattan last week.

Failed to quash indictment CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — David Keith Wills, former Humane Society of the U.S. vice president for investigations and former president of the Michigan Humane Society, is now scheduled for trial in August 2018 on a federal charge of allegedly trafficking a minor for sexual purposes.

In Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, we held that every person accused of a crime, whether state or federal, is entitled to a lawyer at trial.

And so it is with Google's entry into the legal research field with its announcement yesterday that Google Scholar now allows users to search full - text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state appellate and trial courts.

Julian Ku at Opinio Juris picked up on a Washington Post story quoting the ubiquitous unnamed «federal law enforcement official» as saying that more alleged pirates will be brought to the U.S. to stand trial, in light of Kenya's refusal to accept any more piracy suspects.

We have represented plaintiffs and defendants in more than 100 trials and legal proceedings in all forums — state, federal and foreign courts; arbitration and mediation inside and outside the United States; and administrative proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the USPTO and international patent offices.

Matthew Moffa has a broad intellectual property practice that includes litigating patent infringement claims before the federal courts, prosecuting patents for high - tech companies, and practicing before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

«A Deep Bench»: Today in The New York Times, Senior U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich (N.D. Ohio), along with her judicial law clerks, Alex Frondorf and Richard J. Hawkins, have an op - ed that begins, «To succeed Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, President Obama should select a nominee with experience that no other sitting justice has — service as a trial judge on a federal district court.»

Federal criminal lawyers practice in a court where the jury trial «right» under the U.S. Constitution no longer truly exists as a right freely available.

It has appeared in more than 100 court filings, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, 9 federal courts of appeals, 14 federal district courts, 8 state supreme courts, 14 state appellate courts, and one state trial court.